Zephaniah 3:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 6:6 : 6 For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
  • Ezek 23:30 : 30 These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
  • Amos 3:9 : 9 Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
  • Lev 1:16 : 16 and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes:
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
  • Isa 30:12 : 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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    2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.

    3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

    4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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    8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

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    10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly.

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    26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

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    21How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

    22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

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    6Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.

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    6For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

    7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

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    1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

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    11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

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    35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

  • Hab 2:12
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    12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

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    5Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

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    23And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,)

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    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

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    17Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

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    9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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    12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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    2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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